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Pamela Anderson Takes Control Of Her Life Story

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Pamela Anderson has had an incredibly rich, and varied, career. She's an actress, the author of several books, and a prominent activist - especially for animal rights.
But many people still see her primarily as a sex symbol, the archetypal "blonde bombshell."
In a new memoir titled "Love, Pamela", Anderson takes control of the narrative, telling her story in her own words.
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0:00.0

For decades, Pamela Anderson has been a force to be reckoned with.

0:05.5

She's a prolific activist, campaigning most vocally for animal rights.

0:09.5

She's also authored several books, both fiction and nonfiction.

0:13.5

But you know, over the years, Anderson's work as an actor and model and her love life

0:19.0

have been in the headlines the most.

0:21.0

That's when she's often reduced to descriptions like this.

0:24.6

Pamela Anderson is this generation's sultry sex goddess, Hollywood and the blonde bomb

0:29.6

show.

0:30.6

International superstar from her role on BayWides.

0:32.6

It's perhaps the most famous blonde on the planet.

0:35.7

So while that image has certainly opened a lot of doors for her, it's also come with a lot

0:42.2

of unfair assumptions.

0:43.2

Would you want to be a serial actress?

0:45.2

I have a serial actress.

0:49.2

And that's why Anderson wanted to tell her own story in a new memoir titled Love Pamela.

0:54.6

I don't want to go strider.

0:56.0

I don't want to collaborate her.

0:57.4

I just need a great editor.

0:59.0

And that's what happened.

1:00.0

I wrote every word.

1:01.8

Consider this.

1:02.8

The story of the blonde bombshell is a story told about Pamela Anderson, not by Pamela

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